Horse-stall.



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Patented April 5, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH F. SCHMIDT, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

HORSE-STALL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 756,716, dated April 5, 1904.

Application filed J T1119 14, 1902- To all whom it 777/62] concern.-

Be it known that I, JosEPH F. SCHMIDT, a citizen of the United States, residing atNewark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horse-Stalls; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The objects of this invention are to facilitate the work of cleaning a horse-stall, and to thereby maintain it in a more sanitary condition; to avoid the use of independent guttercovers at the rear of the stall, and thereby cheapen the construction and render the appearance of the stall more neat and simple; to enable the slats to be more quickly and easily removed in the event of breakage or for other purposes; to secure a self-locking arrangement of the slats, as hereinafter described; to enable the bedding to be elevated above the flooring to facilitate the drying thereof, and to preserve the slats by enabling them to dry more perfectly and quickly, and thus reduce the loss due to rotting, and to secure other advantages and results, some of which may be referred to hereinafter in connection with the description of the working parts.

The invention consists in the improved horse-stall and in the arrangements and combinations of parts of the same, all substantially as will be hereinafter set forth, and finally embraced in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the several figures, Figure 1 is a perspective view of astall having my improvements. Fig. 2 is a plan of the flooring thereof. Fig. 3 is a sectional View of the same, taken at line a; of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective View of portions of one of the slats. Fig. 5 is a detail view showing a slat covering a drain or gutter at the rear of the stall; and Fig. 6 is a detail Serial No. 111,595. (No model.)

gutter communicating with similar gutters of 7 adjacent stalls through pipes c, embedded in the concrete. I may form the gutterc in cement integral with the flooring a, as in Fig. 5, or I may form said gutter in concrete blocks and embed the latter in the concrete of the flooring, as in Fig. 3.

Near the opposite ends of the shallow recesses d and extending from one side thereof to the other are slat-supports e 6, having arms f f eight inches, more or less, in length, the said arms at their ends opposite those to which the transverse slat-holding bar 9 unites or is attached or connected having pivotal pins it, which extend into pivotal recesses formed in the cement or in sockets h, embedded in said cement. The said slat holders or supports a are adapted to turn on the said pivotal pins h, and the transverse bars may thus be elevated eight inches, more or less, from the bottom of the recess d, because of the eccentricity of the said transverse bar g in its relation to said pins h. The said'bar g is preferably flat, as shownin Fig. 6, and at suitable points thereonsay about three and a half inches apartthe same is furnished with lugs 9, adapted to serve as parting-lugs for the slats h to hold the latter in proper relation one away from the other.

The slats it, near their opposite ends, are provided with transverse holes c', Figs. 4 and 5, preferably made with an auger or bit, one side of each of which opens out through the bottom of the slat, as shown in Fig. 4, the opening 21 being considerably narrower than the diameter of the said hole and the said opening 2" being of a width about equal'to the thickness of the flat transverse bar 9, and thus 'said bars are in their lower position and the transverse bars turn pivotally downward, so as to lie horizontally, and the said slats are also carried down into the shallow recess 61 then the said narrow transverse bars turning within the transverse holes of the slats lock the said slats in place, so that the slats cannot be removed either by the animal or by aperson disposed to remove the same except by raising all said slats or breaking the slat loose.

To enablethe slat holder or carrier to be raised, I prefer to employ a lever b, Fig. 3, one end of which is narrow enough to enter between the slats and beneath the transverse bar, so that the said transverse bar may be pried up with ease. The lever acting, preferably, upon the rearmost transverse bar, the power is communicated to the forward transverse bar by the slats, so that the two bars move together in unison, the two transverse bars maintaining a parallel relation equally distant from the bottom of the recess. Other means may be employed for elevating the slat carrier or holder.

The series of slats arranged on the forward and rearward holders and operating as described, so that the bedding thereon can be raised from the floor and a free air-current enter beneath, may be quickly dried because of such elevation, and are thus preserved from quick deterioration in strength. The space beneath the elevated slats is suflicient to enable the stableman to wash out the recess with a hose, and thus thoroughly cleanse the flooring and render the stable less offensive and more sanitary. The water from the hose flows by gravity into the gutter c and is carried away from thence in any suitable manner. By extending the slats when lowered across the gutter, as in Fig. 5, all plates are rendered series of slats, and eccentrically-pivoted slatholders adapted to be turned to raise the said slats from the flooring, substantially as set forth.

4:. The combination with the stall-flooring having a gutter formed therein, near the rear of the stall, of a series of slats adapted when lowered to the flooring to cover the said gutter, and means for elevating said slats comprising transverse bars 6, and pivoted arms f, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination with the flooring, of

' pivotal slat-holders consisting of pivots, arms extending from said pivots and transverse bars 6, the said transverse bars having series of lugs adapted to hold the slats apart, substantially as set forth.

6. The combination with the slats having the transverse grooves or holes therein, which open out through the contracted openings at the bottom of the slat, of transverse bars adapted to enter through said contracted openings and turn therein to positions across the said contracted openings to hold the slats in locked relation, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 6th day of June, 1902.

Jos. F. SCHMIDT.

Witnesses:

CHARLES H. PELL, C. B. PITNEY. 

